TELEVISION, SEARCH WJXT IN YOUR APPLE OR ANDROID APP STORE. MORE LOCAL NEWS. THIS VACANT LOT IN ST. AUGUSTINE IS BIDDING CITY LEADERS AND NEIGHBORS AGAINST 7-ELEVEN CONVENIENT STORES. COMPANY WANTS TO SET UP SHOP ON THE PROPERTY. THE STORE WILL BE BUILT AT THE INTERSECTION OF SAN MARCO AVENUE AND MAY STREET NEAR THE CARE CAROUSEL. CITY PLANNING OFFICIALS HAVE REJECTED THE PROPOSAL BUT 7-ELEVEN ISN'T BACKING DOWN. TIM PULLIAM IS JOINING US LIVE IN ST. AUGUSTINE WITH NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THIS CONVENIENT STORE SPAT. ROB, WE ARE HERE AT THE INTERSECTION OF SAN MARCO AVENUE AND MAY STREET. THIS IS THE PROPOSED SITE AND I SPOKE TO NEIGHBORS TONIGHT WHO SAY THAT A 7-ELEVEN HERE WOULD BE A NIGHTMARE. IT WOULD BE DEVASTATING TO THE AREA. THAT'S HOW NEIGHBORS FEEL ABOUT A 7-ELEVEN SETTING UP HERE IN WHAT THEY CALL AN HISTORIC AREA IN ST. AUGUSTINE. THE LATEST DEVELOPMENT IN THE BATTLE. THE CITY'S PLAN DIRECTOR REJECTED 7-ELEVEN'S PERMIT. THE PERMIT WAS LARGELY REJECTED BECAUSE OF EXIT AND ENTRANCE POINTS ON SAN MARCO AVENUE IS 35 FEET, SIGNIFICANTLY WIDER THAN THE CITY'S MAXIMUM REQUIREMENT OF 24 FEET. TO RELAX ON THAT REQUIREMENT, WE DON'T FEEL IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF OUR CITY. NOT ONLY FROM AN AESTHETIC POINT OF VIEW BUT FROM PUBLIC SAFETY, FROM THE ORDERLY CIRCULATION OF TRAFFIC THROUGH OUR CITY. I TALKED TO A WOMAN WHO LIVES NEARBY, SHE IS THRILLED THE CITY BLOCKED THE PERMIT. SHE SAYS SHE IS CONCERNED THE SITE WOULD RUIN PROPERTY VALUES, CAUSE TRAFFIC HEADACHES AND DESTROY THIS HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOOD. THE TANKERS WOULD BE COMEING THIS THERE AND THE THOIS WOULD -- NOISE WOULD BE BAD. IT WOULD RUIN -- IT IS ON THE EDGE OF A NATIONAL HISTORIC REGISTER SITE. THEY HAVE THESE BEAUTIFUL TREES AND A LOT OF PEOPLE, I'M SURE, IF THIS PROJECT HAPPENED, PEOPLE WOULD WANT TO SELL THEIR PLACES AND MOVE. 7-ELEVEN COULD APPEAL THE CITY'S DECISION. THE LOCAL PAPER HERE SAYS THAT THEY PLAN TO DO THAT. I HAVE TRIED TO REACH OUT TO 7-ELEVEN'S ATTORNEYS TONIGHT BUT MY PHONE CALLS WERE NOT RETURNED. WE ARE LIVE TONIGHT, TIM PULLIAM, CHANNEL 4 THE LOCAL STATION. TIM, I WAS JUST CURIOUS, WHAT DOES THE APPEAL PROCESS LOOK LIKE? WELL, ROB, 7-ELEVEN COULD APPEAL TO THE HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD. NEXT TO THE CITY COMMISSION. IF THE CITY COMMISSION REJECTS THEIR APPEAL, THEN THEY WOULD HAVE TO APPEAL THROUGH THE CIRCUIT COURT. SO THERE IS MANY CHANNELS THAT

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -

Residents in St. Augustine are fighting to keep a 7-Eleven from opening up shop near their homes.

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So far, the neighbors have been successful. The city's planning director recently rejected 7-Eleven's permit to build.

St. Augustine Mayor Joseph Boles told Channel 4 the permit was largely rejected because of width of the store's proposed entrance and exit point onto San Marco Avenue.

The plan calls for that entrance and exit point to be 35 feet, significantly wider than the city's maximum requirement of 24 feet.

"To relax on that requirement would not be in the best interest of our city, not only from an aesthetic point of view but safety, also from the orderly safety of traffic through our city," said Boles.

Channel 4 spoke to a woman who lives nearby the proposed 7-Eleven site. She's thrilled that the city blocked the 7-Eleven's permit.

The woman told Channel 4 that she is concerned the site would ruin property values, cause traffic headaches and destroy the historic neighborhood.

"The tankers would be coming in there, the noise would be bad and it would just ruin what's on the edge of a national historic site," she said. "It's got these beautiful trees and I'm sure if this project were to happen, neighbors would try to sell their places and move because it would be horrendous, a nightmare."

7-Eleven could appeal the city's decision which, according to the St. Augustine Record's report, they do plan on filing an appeal.

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